The Middle School Attached to Normal University provides compulsory reading argumentation and information analysis courses, which are taught jointly by liberal arts and science teachers, and students are required to provide strong evidence for their ideas.

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[Reporter Lin Xiaoyun/Taipei Report] AI is impacting the teaching scene. Parent-child Tianxia Magazine published the survey results of "Taiwan High School Vocational 108 Curriculum Featured Courses" today. More than 40% of high school principals expressed their hope to increase teachers in the field of science and technology to meet the challenges of AI and provide students with Prepare in advance the ability to use in future work.

The National Education Administration of the Ministry of Education stated that according to the inventory of the Ministry of Education, there are enough teachers in the fields of science and technology and language, and only technical and professional subjects. Since it is difficult for schools in remote areas to find teachers with practical experience, they are continuing to work hard to increase the number of posts.

The development of AI impacts school teaching. According to the survey, 41% of high schools most want to recruit teachers in the field of science and technology in the past three years, including teachers in information technology and life technology, followed by teachers in the field of Chinese, including teachers in Chinese, English, and local languages. He is a technical high school professional subject teacher, and Hualien County is the most lacking.

Overall, less than 10% and 9% of the respondents who answered the questionnaire considered that the high schools had sufficient teachers.

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Ke Yaling, the principal of Xinbei High School in New Taipei City, said that the trend of technological development is irreversible, and many high schools want to offer relevant elective courses to help students cope with the future world, so there is a demand.

As for the field of language, it is speculated that the new policy on vernacular languages ​​is on the way too quickly. The National Language Development Law was finalized at the end of 2018, requiring vernacular languages ​​to be compulsory in schools below high school from the 111th school year. Schools are eager to hire qualified teachers.

50% of high schools called on the Ministry of Education to increase the number of teachers. In addition to allowing schools to obtain more talented people, they also reduced the student-teacher ratio and implemented small-class refined teaching.

In this regard, the Ministry of Education’s National Education Administration stated that 1,429 posts will be added for the 112 school year in August this year, for the 227 national high schools under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education to recruit additional teachers. The number of posts is a new high in the past three years.

In response to the administrative work derived from the 108 curriculum, the National Education Administration stated that it will subsidize 245 national high schools and enrich 294 administrative manpower outside the establishment, that is, each school can increase 1 to 3. The National Education Administration has also canceled national high schools Service evaluation, implement administrative reduction, and hope to provide schools with more leeway to improve teaching.

As for county and city high schools, it is handled in accordance with the practices of the county and city education bureaus.

In addition, it is the enrollment season for colleges and universities. High school principals have suggestions on the university admissions system. 64% hope that the entrance examinations, including university academic tests and subject tests, will have a more stable difficulty level; 35% hope that university selection will pay more attention to each student. High school students must build a "learning history file"; 47% of high school principals expect universities to communicate more with high schools, especially school principals in Hualien and Nantou counties; 39% expect universities to announce more complete and easy-to-read information to assist high school students Explore yourself and choose the right department.

In addition, due to the impact of the declining birth rate, 43% of high school principals reported that it is difficult to recruit enough new students, and most of them are private schools; 31% of high schools pointed out that after the introduction of the new curriculum, the number of teaching hours of subjects has been reduced, and students’ subject abilities have weakened; 29% Respondents believe that the rising awareness of students' rights and the sharp increase in teacher-student conflicts are the biggest challenges in running a school at this stage.

And 81% of high school principals said that "teachers who are also administrators have a heavy workload" is a great challenge to running a school. Chen Shengli, the principal of Taoyuan Agricultural Engineering affiliated to the National Taipei University of Technology, said that the variety of high school 108 subjects has increased significantly, the number of teachers is insufficient, and over-the-hour teaching has become the norm.

Wen Shunde, the principal of Qiaotai High School, said that part-time administrative teachers have to write various plans to fight for teaching resources, and even deal with supervisor visits, filling out endless forms, and the level of fatigue has never been seen before.